Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Named Reactions/Schmidt Rearrangement

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The scope of this reaction has been extended to reactions of carbonyls with alkyl azides R-N3. This extension was first reported by J.H. Boyer in 1955 [3] (hence the name Boyer reaction) for example the reaction of m-nitrobenzaldehyde with β-azido-ethanol: